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Wednesday:

Online debate organized by the "La Caixa" Foundation with the presentation by Maria Pia Cosma, ICREA researcher and head of the Reprogramming and Regeneration Group of the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, and José Antonio Garrido, ICREA researcher, deputy director of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), and head of the Advanced Materials and Devices Electronics Group at ICN2. all moderated by Núria Ramírez de Castro, editor-in-chief of Society of the ABC newspaper.

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Place: Online

Date: Wednesday 25, May de 2022 - 19:00h

Promotor: ICN2

Wednesday:

Are you interested in computer vision? Would you like to discover how to work in a reference research center in this field? Would you like to do research? Would you like to know what training and career opportunities we offer?

Come to our Open Day and meet the Computer Vision Center (CVC) on May 26, 2022!

The session is designed for you to discover what computer vision is and in which fields it is applied, learn about the main projects and lines of research from our researchers and discover the training and career opportunities we offer (TFGs, internships, Master, PhD program, etc.). Finally, there will be a visit to the center’s facilities and different interactive technological demonstrations will be shown.

The activity will be carried out in two shifts, one in the morning from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and one in the afternoon from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. If neither of them works for you, contact the center to arrange a visit.

To attend it is necessary to reserve a place at the following link.

Place: Computer Vision Center, Building O, Campus UAB

Date: Thursday 26, May de 2022 - 11:00h

Date: Thursday 26, May de 2022 - 16:30h

Promotor: CVC

Email:: press@cvc.uab.es

Wednesday:

Virtually all ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human activities, and ecologists are now faced with the Herculean task of understanding and projecting the impacts of these threats at various scales. In this talk, Maria Paniw, a Marie Curie fellow at Doñana Biological Station, discusses the opportunities of using methods from population ecology as a toolbox to rigorously and holistically assess human impacts on natural systems. Her research focuses on how intrinsic (density) and extrinsic (environment) factors, biotic interactions, and individual traits (size or mass) interact to determine population structure and dynamics. Working with long-term data on animal and plant populations, she is particularly interested in how population projections under global change can be improved by accounting for trait dynamics, environmental and spatial patterning, and tradeoffs between survival and reproduction. Using empirical example across plants and animals, she will discuss how we can scale from phenotypes to populations to communities to gain a mechanistic understanding of key drivers of population and community dynamics. In particular, she will stress the importance of such mechanistic models for accurate forecasting and discuss the critical role of long-term studies that allow us to formulate mechanistic models in the first place.

Seminars will combine online and onsite formats but in all cases, talks will be always streamed (not recorded), so they can be followed online. For more information, click here.

Place: Sala Graus II, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date: Friday 27, May de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: CREAF

Email:: t.rosas@creaf.uab.cat

Wednesday:

High-throughput sequencing has allowed scientists to improve the understanding of the structure, diversity, and functions of microbial communities. Most importantly, these communities play key roles for their host (human or plant) and at larger scales for ecosystems. Yet, few studies have provided an integrative cross-domain (e.g., bacteria-fungi) perspective of the microbiome. In this talk, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, a community ecologist specialized in microbial ecology focused on the questions at the intersection between ecology, microbiology, statistics, genomics, and bioinformatics, will present the results of his last 10 years of research on the plant and human microbiome. A journey that started as a Master student at CREAF and now continues as an assistant professor at Université de Sherbrooke and Canada Research Chair in Applied Microbial Ecology. She is interested by the host-microbe interactions in terrestrial ecosystems (mainly forest) but also on the human gut ecosystem. 
Seminars will combine online and onsite formats but in all cases, talks will be always streamed (not recorded), so they can be followed online. For more information, click here.

Place: Sala Graus II, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date: Monday 13, June de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: CREAF

Email:: t.rosas@creaf.uab.cat

Wednesday:

In 2015, scientists discovered gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime from the violent collision of two black holes. These gravitational waves are now detected at a rate of once per week by kilometre-scale detectors, giving scientists a rare insight into black holes and the Universe. Next-generation detectors, may observe up to a million gravitational-wave signals per year from various known and unknown types of sources. What have we learned from gravitational waves so far, and what can we expect going forward?

This colloquium by Tjonnie Li (KU Leuven) is part of the BIST Master of Multidisciplinary Research in Experimental Sciences curriculum but is also open and free for anyone interested in participating.

Place: IFAE Seminar room

Date: Monday 13, June de 2022 - 12:00h

Date: Monday 13, June de 2022 - 13:00h

Promotor: IFAE

Wednesday:

Boys and girls from the Dosrius School in Camarasa will be presenting three audiovisual capsules that explain the archaeological site of Roca dels Bous to visitors.

The event willl mark the end of a project conducted throughout the school year in collaboration with the educational programme "Investiga.edu" and the UAB Archaeology and Palaeontology Campus. “Dosrius School Researchers Roca dels Bous” also included the support and scientific assessment of the UAB Centre for Archaeological Heritage Studies, which has been working at the site for over 20 years.

Place: Isard Car Park - Start of the Roca dels Bous route

Date: Tuesday 14, June de 2022 - 19:00h

Promotor: Investiga.edu Project - Association for the Research and Dissemination of Historical Heritage

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Email:: programainvestiga.edu@gmail.com/ardphistoric@gmail.com